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theprof00 on 06 March 2015
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Protendo said:
theprof00 said:
You guys are thinking too complicated with the streaming thing.
Nvidia shield is as powerful or more so than current gen...or its advertised as such.
That means the games will be mostly downloaded and rendered by the console, not the cloud.
You can still do a digital only console a number of ways.
For example, thumb drives, portable hard drives brought to a retailer...regular download. Games on SanDisk memory cards etc.

It really wouldn't be that hard.

Except the Nvidias grid sole purpose is cloud based rendering. Nvidia Shield hardware for gaming purposes is basically Wii-U 1.2 and not in the same ballpark as the PS4 or XBO.

apologies, I meant the steam machines.

Minimum build requirements do not include a disc drive. Valve is working on a software called steam-link which can stream from pc to the machine. Can be digital only, process client-side, and stream from the computer. And valve supports sharing.